#Pellucidar

[geekynerfherder]

'In A Trance' by Frank Frazetta.

Interior illustration from the 1972 edition of the novel 'At The Earth's Core', Book 1 of the Pellucidar series by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

[theimaginauts]

SAVAGE PELLUCIDAR

Art by FRANK FRAZETTA

[cgbcomics]

[pulpsandcomics2]

Land of Terror by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Ace. 1963)

[chernobog13]

Dian the Beautiful held captive by an evil Mahar, by William Stout.

[trioxina245]

Pellucidar, by Frank Frazetta

[wonderful-strange]

William Stout Edgar Rice Burroughs Sketchbook, 1999.

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[manyworldspress]

Frank Frazetta, The Mammoth, 1974. Originally painted for the cover of Back to the Stone Age, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Ace Books, January 1973), and later reworked by the artist.

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[suedebikini]

[all-action-all-picture]

1972 ad for Edgar Rice Burroughs' Korak, Son of Tarzan No. 46, 1972. This was the first DC issue and the numbering had continued on from a Gold Key run of the title. The stories were are all written by Len Wein, Korak featured art by Frank Thorne, Carson of Venus by Michael Kaluta and Pellucidar by Alan Weiss.

[wyrmfedgrave]

Pics: More scans of Pellucidar. They were so popular, that several versions of the books exist.

1. Dian the Beautiful in the original novel's title page. Drawn by the great Frank Frazetta.

2. Dian again. But, this time in a more modern comicbook adaptation. Or, is it a continuation of the novels?

3. Close up map of the area originally explored in the 1st few novels.

4. Cover of the 3rd book in this inner world series. Concerns the Corsairs, basically pirates.

Fictional Settings:

In the late 1800s, most of the world's maps no longer including any "terra incognito" (unknown lands) in their precise charts.

Sci-fi/fantasy writers needed to find new settings, beyond lost continents & 'darkest' Africa, for their stories.

So, the writers placed their heroes in "technotopias" (advanced scientific or perfected societies), now found in "terra cava" (cavern worlds)...

This allowed authors to mix the 'lost' Western frontier with advanced tech!

It also let writers play add more low tech or primal Lost Race settings - as an attempt to regain an ancient Eden!!

This mix of genres led to a literary expansion into new writing frontiers.

So, the discovery of the solidly ice covered Poles, didn't end the "terra cava" genre. It didn't even end the various 'wild' theories.

Instead, the genre became associated with the New Age philosophy & still survives - now in the Internet...

Among those idea promoters are:

1. Gustav F. Ebding's "Concave Hollow Sphere Theory."

2. Paolo E. Amico-Roxas' "The Endo- Spherical Field."

3. Frederick Culmer's "The Mormon Inner World."

4. Marshal P. Gardner's "Every Planet Hollow Theory."

5. Sherman & William F. Lyon's "The World Agitator & Reconciler Theory."

6. Orville L. Leach's "Earth Geode Theory."

7. F. Amadeo Giannini's "Physical Continuum Theory."

8. Raymond W. Bernard's "Agharta, the Subterranean World."

9. Brinsley Le Poer Trench's "Internal Reptilian World."

Note: There's probably more of these online, but, I'm not going to go into that much detail.

Most of these ideas are long after Lovecraft's time & wouldn't have affected his 1906 scientific article, "The Earth (is) Not Hollow."

[geekynerfherder]

'Three Mighty Thipdars' by Frank Frazetta.

Interior illustration from the 1972 edition of the novel 'Pellucidar', Book 2 of the 'Pellucidar' series by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

[theimaginauts]

PELLUCIDAR

Art by JOE JUSKO

[tyrannus555]

Zarith (Tyrannosaurus Rex)

The Zarith are the most feared and the dominant predators of Pellucidar even the Mahar fear them. I took the V.rex from King Kong and slightly made changes to the head. And because the animals are described exaggerated I made it an evolved T.rex making it bigger than Gigantosaurus and try to make it scarier.  

[pulpsandcomics2]

Tarzan at the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Ace, 1963) cover by Frank Frazetta

[chernobog13]

Tarzan is about to served as dinner in this Neal Adams cover for Tarzan at the Earth’s Core.